Loyalists: TheRoberto GuercioDifficulties they encountered
...and Anglican clergymen out of America. Then the middle and lower class were exiled in the second wave. They were given a choice, to either remain with the Crown or leave, some did remain with the Crown but most left. They ended up in Nova Scotia, later creating New Brunswick. This was especially difficult for the loyalists, they were now forced to live in a totally new environment and expected to survive on whatever they could carry from their old homes. Which wasn’t much, they pretty much left with the clothes on their back and a few essentials. And when they finally settled, they were not allowed any representative assembly in the province, even the ones who stayed in the U.S were excluded from holding public office. The Quebec Act did not permit them to have their own elected legislature. They demanded a government like they had before the revolution, one that they could choose their own public officials, which they never received. ...